By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: November 11, 2007
HONG KONG, Sunday, Nov. 11 — The Chinese government announced late Saturday that it had confirmed the presence of poison on toy beads exported around the world, while in the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said that seven more children had been sickened.


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The Chinese government’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine also identified the factory that manufactured the beads, the Wangqi Product Factory in the southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen, and said the factory’s export license had been suspended.

The Chinese response to the poisonous toy beads represents an unusually swift reaction, and a contrast with other recent cases of recalled products from China, when the Chinese government has moved more slowly and been more defensive.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the number of children sickened by Aqua Dots had risen to nine from two in the past week, as the agency renewed its appeal for parents to keep the product out of the hands of children. Spin Master, a Toronto company that distributes Aqua Dots in North America, has recalled it.

The bead toys are distributed in about 40 countries across Asia and Europe by Moose Enterprise of Australia under a different brand name, Bindeez. Spin Master had been selling the toys in North America under a license from Moose, which in turn contracted with the Hong Kong office of a Taiwanese toy manufacturer to supply the toys from the factory in China.

If you have them get rid of them.
This is soo sad!!

all import trade from china should be halted

until such time they permit us inspectors

in there manufacturing network

for anything made for export to u s

I heard on the news that it is the reaction when water is added.
Terrible. Time to take toys back a few yaers and make them out of wood.
Kat

The last time there was a recall of chinese toys for lead paint, several of the people responsible got executed. There is a thread on this forum someplace about it. I would bet the ones responsible for this latest fiasco are on the short list for a bullet in the brain too.

garden...in america they would be promoted with a raise and a book deal...

you may be right davinci, the Peter Principle is still being practiced wholeheartedly in American Business.